EZ does it! Extensions of the EZ-diffusion model

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1229-1235

  Wagenmakers, Eric Jan ^a   van der Maas, Han L J ^a   Dolan, Conor V ^a   Grasman, Raoul P P P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAM; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NOTE; PSYCHOMETRY; REACTION TIME; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; REACTION TIME; SOFTWARE;

EID: 59049089105     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.15.6.1229     Document Type: Article

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